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http://dawatmedia.com/world-news/1869/#respondSat, 14 Jul 2018 05:00:14 +0000http://dawatmedia.com/?p=1869The attacks raise fears of increased violence as the country prepares for a general election later this month.

At least 128 people were killed and over 150 others sustained injuries in a deadly explosion ripping through an election gathering in Mastung area in Balochistan area of Pakistan.

The security officials confirmed that the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate Nawabzada Siraj Raisani was among those killed in the blast.

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Qaim Lashari confirmed the casualties toll and said the incident took place during a gathering in Darengarh area of Mastung.

No individual or group has so far claimed responsibility behind the deadly blast.

This comes as at least thirty six people were killed or wounded in an explosion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan earlier today.

The incident took place in Bannu area of the province targeting the vehicle of the former chief minister and Jamiat Ulema Islam Fazal candidate Akram Khan Durrani.

District Police Officer Bannu Khurram Rashid has said the incident took place as Durrani was returning from an election rally and explosives were detonated close to his vehicle with the help of remote control.

London: Free Balochistan Movement (FBM ) led by pro-freedom Baloch national leader Hyrbyair Marri annouced to organise protests against Pakistan’s nuclear weapons on 28 May LONDON: The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) has announced to organise protests and awareness programs in Balochistan and abroad on 28 May 2018 to protest against Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and their effects on the people of Raaskoh area of district Chaghai Balochistan. Like every year, this year also the FBM, a pro-freedom party headed by Hyrbyair Marri, will organise events in different counties of the world to give awareness about the effects of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons on people of district Chaghai and rest of Balochistan.

In its statement to the media that 20 years ago Pakistan tested its dirty nuke in Balochistan’s Chaghai hills on May 28, 1998, contaminating the Baloch land forever. ‘The people of the region continue to suffer from different diseases including cancer, skin diseases as a result of the tests,’ the FBM statement added. Since the blast in 1998, international experts have not been allowed to visit the region to examine the effects of the radioactivity in the area. The FBM said, “Pakistan’s nuclear weapons not only pose a threat to Baloch, Pashtun, and Sindhis, but Pakistan also breached the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by passing nuclear information Iran. “Pakistani scientist Dr Qadir Khan has publicly admitted passing nuclear secret information to other states.” The FBM said Iran today poses a threat to the world because of the information that Pakistan provided to it.

The FBM said that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons could, at any time, fall in the hands of religious extremists and proxies of the Pakistan Army as the country was an irresponsible state and also, they could do anything for money. The FBM has requested all freedom loving people, human rights activists, and anti-nuclear weapons groups to join its protests around the world to raise voice against Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and demand to denuclearise Pakistan.

One may wonder what prompted me to decline the claim of Pakistan that there is extremism in Balochistan, despite knowing the utmost reality that Pakistan is the godfather and mass-producing machinery of religious fanatics. Evidently, the news is gaining weight concurrently that, Christian and Shia community are sporadically being targeted in the heart of capital city of Balochistan – Quetta. On 15, April two members of the Christian community were killed and three more were injured, including two girls after ‘Unknown’ gunmen opened indiscriminate firing in Isa Nagri in Quetta Balochistan. Two of the injured – Rashid Khalid and Azhar Iqbal – died on way to the hospital. But the shooters escaped en route despite the fact that entire Balochistan, particularly Quetta is a military garrison of Pakistan army. This is not the first time that Christians, Hindus and other non-Muslims have been targeted in Quetta city. On April 2, four members of a Christian family were gunned down in Quetta a day after the Christian community celebrated Easter on Sunday. Provincial police official Moazzam Jah Ansari said. “It was an act of terrorism,” This time also the target killers escaped safely. The crux of Pakistan terrorism policy in Balochistan is to confuse the world against the Baloch national struggle for the freedom of Balochistan. Pakistan is pushing her terrorism doctrine just to confuse the global arena for her personal financial, military and strategic goals. The purport of the created doctrine is to divert the attention of international community and its media from freedom struggle of Balochistan towards the terrorism, and by diluting the genuine cause and sufferings of the Baloch nation in specific and Pashtuns in General which are imposed by the army of Pakistan. The evident of which is the recent upsurge and resentment of Pashtuns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against their harassment and enforced disappearances by Pakistani army from the time of mock Swat operation. Pakistan has taken a dual approach in Pashtun case; firstly Pakistan has portrayed the Pashtun nation as religious fanatics, Taliban and intolerant people, thereby creating a worldwide bad image for the Pashtun nation.

Now when Pashtun realized the truth that Taliban are none but Pakistani army and their nurtured goons, which compel the Pashtun nation to raise voice against the duplicity of Pakistan, due to which the activists of PashtunTahafuz movement (PTM) are being abducted, labelled as the agent of RAW and NDS – again building a narrative that foreign hands are behind the PashtunTahafuz movement. Likewise in Balochistan, Pakistan is trying her utmost effort to prevail the notion of extremism, tactic to counter Baloch national liberation struggle, but the Baloch nation is profoundly aware of the fact that the doctrine of extremism is Pakistan’s self-styled propaganda to diminish Baloch liberation struggle before the world and Western media. Like in the Pashtun belt, Pakistan is promoting Balochistan’s insurgency as religious oriented to gain her personal gains as she did in FATA, Swat and rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where billions of dollars were poured in the pockets of military generals of the Pakistani army. Baloch national leader Mr Hyrbyair Marri has reiterated on several forums that Pakistan is backing and producing religious extremists to gain the sympathy of the world. In his recent statement on social media, Mr Marri on the targeted killing of Christian community said: “Today’s attack on the member of the Christian community and the continuous persecution of other religious minorities exposes the real face of Pakistan – the state created on the basis of religious hatred. As long as the artificially created state, “Pakistan”, exists, such attacks and other heinous crimes against people of different faiths will continue. The world must take notice of Pakistan’s war crimes against the Baloch nation and its promotion of hatred toward Christians, Hindus and Shia minorities.” From the statement, it is clear that the state of Pakistan is the promoter of extremism with different methodologies. In different eras of Baloch liberation struggle, Pakistan has played different counter tactics to sabotage Baloch nationalism and struggle for free Balochistan. In the 70s keeping in view, the global politics Pakistan had played well with the capitalism and socialism ideologies to counter Baloch movement. When there was a rift within the Baloch politics as being socialist based freedom movement of Balochistan, Pakistan has penetrated her ISI sponsored Punjab based socialists within the Baloch movement to counter the liberation movement for an independent Balochistan and confuse the Baloch freedom seekers in the name of class struggle to weaken their national struggle. Moreover, to curry the favour of the then USSR Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto convinced the Gorbachev’s regime that Pakistan would join the socialist block if USSR hands off from their support to the freedom movement of Balochistan.

On contrary, Pakistan was working with capitalist block USA to diminish the USSR, by launching her sponsored jihadist extremist movement against the Soviet Union. Today once again Pakistan is playing with the same cards by introducing China to counter the USA in South Asia by intensifying her jihadist literature in the region with the backing of China. But this time Baloch nation under the leadership of Mr Hyrbyair Marri has understood that Baloch nation’s ideological basis is based on patriotism and the struggle for freedom of Balochistan is patriotic, not socialist. Indeed Pakistan is trying her utmost effort to divert Baloch nationalism to socialism so that Pakistan might once again sabotage the movement through any probable deal with the socialist or capitalist block against any favour that might tilt in favour of the Baloch freedom movement. But the worrisome for Pakistan is “Baloch nationalism” ideology which is not possible for Pakistan to be negotiated with any regional or global power. Due to this Pakistan is crying wolf that there is extremism in Balochistan because Pakistan is thoroughly aware of the fact that extremism and religious terrorism is global phenomenon, which might help Pakistan to put a notion before the world that her war on terror is being affected by Baloch insurgency in Balochistan, which would be helpful for her to use the influence of global powers against Baloch national liberation struggle. Indeed in many localities of Balochistan Pakistan has provided safe havens to the Taliban and other extremist groups, from where they penetrate on the soil of Afghanistan and carry out their attacks on Afghan people. But the clandestine reality is that Pakistan is entertaining her terrorists with many benefits through Gwadar. It is reported that acres of land is being allotted to Hafiz Saeed and other religious goons around the coastal areas of Balochistan which are being considered as the protectors of Chinese nationals in Gwadar and adjoining areas. In a recent photograph on social media Chinese officials are seen with the members and head of Pakistan army-backed death squads confirm the Baloch claim that Pakistan and China a jointly promoting religious extremism in Balochistan to counter Baloch freedom struggle. The world should ponder on the fact that Pakistan is launching her propaganda of extremism in Balochistan.

The global arena should not mix extremism with the Baloch national liberation movement, which is Pakistan delusion based approach to confuse the world regarding Baloch freedom movement. Baloch nation is secular and peace-loving; there is no term ‘minority’ in Balochi literature because the Baloch nation has never segregated people on the basis of their faith and conducts. The articles (4 & 5) of Balochistan Liberation Charter confirm that an independent Balochistan would be a secular nation: “Article: 4- The Baloch national struggle is a secular movement. It is for the separation of religion from state and politics. It is for the power of reason and in opposition to any religious and ideological dogma. Article: 5- Freedom of religion, belief and expression are among the most fundamental rights of the citizens of Balochistan. Every individual is free to follow any religion or unorthodox belief provided that in so doing they do not impose their religion and belief and hence infringe the liberty of other people to believe the contrary.”

]]>http://dawatmedia.com/articles/pakistans-counter-tactics-against-baloch-freedom-movement-by-shahdad-baloch/feed/0Pakistan ISI trying to radicalize secular Baloch youth. By: Khairdad Baluchhttp://dawatmedia.com/articles/pakistan-isi-trying-to-radicalize-secular-baloch-youth-by-khairdad-baluch/
http://dawatmedia.com/articles/pakistan-isi-trying-to-radicalize-secular-baloch-youth-by-khairdad-baluch/#respondTue, 06 Feb 2018 19:01:18 +0000http://dawatmedia.com/?p=1466Snatching a pen and giving gun to the Baloch youth is tantamount to radicalize the secular Baloch youth into extremists. Pakistan #ISI during soviet union invasion in #Afghanistan, introduced Jihad in Afghan society by putting the images of guns, bullets and Jihad. The Afghan youth were brain washed since childhood, ISI cleverly put made the school syllabus of nursery and Kindergarten level classes where Pakistan army associated T for Topak (Gun), J for Jihad. An Afghan student since childhood had become a Jihadist and preferred guns instead of a pen that destroyed entire Afghan landscape and national demography of the country. Kids started to buy toy guns, they adopted hit and run (guerrilla warfare) during their break time in educational institutions.

The Afghan youth instead of undertaking collages, universities landed into getting admission in Pakistan ISI run madrassas in Islamabad, Lahore, Quetta, after completing their religious courses they were considered themselves a better Jihadist to kill their own fellow citizens. By counting guns and bullets Afghan youth did not become scientist but drug dealers, by reading about Jihad since childhood Afghan youth couldn’t became life saviors but started beheading their own fellow countrymen. Today Pakistan is repeating the same history to brain wash the Baloch educated youth, ISI is inviting Baloch collage and university students to Lahore, Islamabad, Pindi to inject hatred against #FreeMovement of Balochistan. In the name of Baloch youth mobilization program by ISI, , students are being trained how to operate a gun that mean Pakistan fully have planned to use the Baloch youth to carry blood bath in occupied Balochistan.

To expose and counter this dirty plane of Pakistan army Free Balochistan Movement timely started a nationwide campaign to caution the Baloch youth and people of Balochistan to stay away from ISI’s anti-Baloch campaigns. Now it the duty of every Baloch men and women to distance themselves from such piousness planes of ISI to convert to the secular liberation movement into radicalization the youth. Baloch youth are well known of Pakistan’s dirty planes and we are optimistic that Pakistan will fail to dilute the #BalochistanIndependence movement.

Baloch youth are quite well aware of such dirty planes and we hope in near future they come up with more strength and unity to counter Pakistani anti-FreeBalochistan state backed planes. It is alarming for entire region especially for the NATO, United States of America to take immediate action against Pakistani planes to radicalize the secular population of Balochistan. International community must come ahead and support the legitimate freedom struggle of #Balochistan which has a vital role to combat Pakistani extremism since many decades.

]]>http://dawatmedia.com/articles/pakistan-isi-trying-to-radicalize-secular-baloch-youth-by-khairdad-baluch/feed/0Afghan Irredentism and the question of Pashtun and Baluch- By: Faheem Nazimihttp://dawatmedia.com/articles/afghan-irredentism-and-the-question-of-pashtun-and-baluch-by-faheem-nazimi/
http://dawatmedia.com/articles/afghan-irredentism-and-the-question-of-pashtun-and-baluch-by-faheem-nazimi/#respondThu, 01 Feb 2018 09:47:04 +0000http://dawatmedia.com/?p=1462Afghanistan is a country located approximately in the centre of Asia, a crossroad between East and West and an ancient focal point for trade and migration. It is in an important geo-political location, connecting South and Central Asia with the Middle East. Ahmad Shah Durrani created the Durrani Empire in 1747, which is considered the beginning of modern Afghanistan and the beginning of the Afghan state. By 1751 he and his Afghan army had conquered what is now present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, the provinces of Khorasan and Kohistan of Iran, along with Delhi in India. During the 19th century, following the Anglo-Afghan wars (1839–1842, 1878-80 and lastly in 1919) and the ascension of the Barakzai Dynasty, Afghanistan saw much of its territory and autonomy ceded to British India. The UK exercised a great deal of influence and it was not until King Amanullah Khan acceded to the throne in 1919 that Afghanistan regained complete and full independence over its foreign affairs. Unfortunately, this was not sustained: during the period of British colonial intervention in Afghanistan, the so-called Durand Line divided ethnic Pashtun territories and Afghanistan was turned into a land-locked country depriving it from access to the sea.
Independence movements that sprang up in the interwar period gained new impetus after the conclusion of the Second World War.
The over stretched empires of Britain, France, the Netherlands and Purtugal crumbled in the face of rising nationalism. India had been promised independence during the Second World War, which was eventually granted in 1947. China achieved genuine unity and independence only after the 1949 communist revolution, having fought an eight –year war against the occupying Japanese. A republic of Indonesia was proclaimed in 1949 after a three-year war against the Netherlands. National struggles in South East Asia inspired similar movements in Africa, with liberation movements emerging under leaders such as Nkrumah, in Ghana, Dr. Azikiwe in Nogeria, Julius Nyerere in Tanganyika, later called Tanzania, and Hastings Banda in Nyasaland ( later Malawi). The pace of decolonization in Africa accelerated from the late 1950s onwards. Nigeria gained Independence from UK in 1960 and Algeria gained independence from French in 1962. Kenya became independence in 1963, as did Tanzania and Malawi the next year (in 1964). Africa’s last remaining colony, South-West Africa, finally became independent Nimibia in 1990.
Unfortunately in 1947, as throwback to the independence momentum that had built up, contradicting the international move for independence by all colonies under occupation that gained their independence, the Pastun and Baloch not only not gained their independence from the British raj, but came under renewed occupation and became colonized by the British progeny Pakistan. . In fact, during the July 1947 referendum, the Pashtuns of the North- West Frontier Province were given no choice except to join India or Pakistan. The Afghan government contested this procedure and right from 1947, the Pakistanis and the Afghans have been engaged in a veritable covert war, which the form, among other things, of vigorous propaganda and on the Pakistani side, of the systematic sabotaging of Afghan goods being transited to the Indian Ocean.
The call for an independent Pashtunistan basically provided the Afghan government with an opportunity to denounce 1893 treaty. On the 21 June 1947, the Afghan prime minister Shamamud Khan, declared: If an independent Pashtunistan cannot be set up, the frontier province should join Afghanistan. Our neighbour will realize that our country with its population and trade needs an outlet to the sea. This denunciation of the Durand line, implicit in the declaration of the Afghan prime minister, was fundamental to the affirmation of Afghan irredentism, whose territorial claims extended up to the Indian Ocean.
In effect, while for the Pashtuns living in Pakistan the word Pashtunistan encompassed just the present NWFP, for the Afghan government of the time, it covered a much larger area made up of the same NWFP and Baluchestan.
From the Afghan government viewpoint , the very concept of ‘Pashtunistan’ when an Afghan state already existed, was a tragic admission of the fact that 125 years of foreign occupation, and the unjust Durand line, had divided the Pushtun people into two units, despite their cultural, historical, linguistic, geographic oneness.
But, in the years that followed, the Pashtun question became a veritable abscess, turning into a fixation that prevented any normalization of relations between the countries.
In 1947, King Zahir shah sent a special envoy to Karachi to meet Jinnah. On his return to Kabul, he affirmed:
1) that the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan would be made into ‘sovereign’,
2) that Pakistan would give Afghanistan access to the sea, either by creating an Afghan corridor in West Baluchistan, or through the grant of an ‘Afghan free trade zone’ in Karachi,
3) that Pakistan and Afghanistan would sign a treaty under which each would remain neutral in case the other was attacked( which amounted to an attitude of benevolent neutrality vis –a-vis India). Unfortunately President Jinah’s successors went back on all this and the agreement was adhered to by Pakistan.
During the last two centuries the ideologies, nature, causes, and means of both
external invaders and Afghan rulers have varied. However, the nonconformist
approach of the nation vis-à-vis different great powers has remained constant. Often great powers have imposed their proxy wars on Afghanistan and many times undermined the very survival of this country. For its independence and survival, Afghanistan has fought wars against great powers, and simultaneously made endeavors to develop strategic partnership with them. During the last two centuries, Afghanistan experienced a very volatile relationship with them. However, its relationship with the US is relatively different as compared to, Russia and Great Britain.
Notwithstanding the long distance, Afghanistan has always yearned to have a cordial relationship with the US. However, generally it has failed in this quest in the past. The first formal contact by Afghanistan with the US was strengthened when Muhammad Wali Khan, the Prime Minister of Afghanistan, went to Tashkent in 1922 to participate in an International Peace Conference, as head of Afghan delegation. He at that time talked to the US President Harding on the phone expressing his government’s desire to strengthen bilateral relations. Later he went to the USA in July 1922, again leading another Afghan delegation. This time he met President Harding and handed over a letter to him from King Amanullah Khan.
Afterwards, Prime minister Shah Mahmood Khan, (1948 to 1951), visited the USA
soliciting economic and military aid, but he only obtained limited aid in the
educational and agricultural spheres.
When Daoud Khan became Prime Minister of Afghanistan, he also pursued close military ties with the US, but inDecember1953, the latter announced military aid for Pakistan. Pakistan later became a member of the US military alliance SEATO. Daoud tried various other channels in order to attract US military aid, but faced utter frustration. It was difficult for the USA to maintain a balance between the two regional rivals. The USA adopted a policy not to give any kind of aid to any country, which had a border dispute with Pakistan.
The relation between the USA and Afghanistan touched its lowest ebb when US
Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles handed over some of Afghanistan’s military requirement lists to Mr. Muhammad Ali, Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington. The aid lists contained all details of the military equipments requested by Afghanistan. In 1954, US President, Richard Nixon came to Kabul. He was warmly welcomed but once again, the USA turned down the Afghan demand for military and economic aid. The USA provided very limited aid for a rehabilitation project in Helmand only. In the same year, SEATO, of which the USA was also a member, formalized the controversial and disputed Durand Line as an international boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. This move forced Afghanistan to look for help from the USSR instead of the west. SEATO was dissolved in 1977.
Successive Afghan government has refused to recognize the Durand Line as the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan since the creation of Pakistan in 1947. All Afghan governments, including the Pak-supported Taliban regime, have resisted all moves by Pakistan to formalise the Durand Line. According to former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif, during the Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001, Pakistan tried three times to formalize the border, but was unsuccessful on each occasion.

The recent decision by Pakistan to start fencing the border, and resultant cross-border firing by Afghan forces, is a continuation of this process. As long as this demarcation, which was initially drawn to mark areas of influence rather than as an international border, is given sanctity by the international community, Pakistan will continue to play its own ‘great game’ in this area, even if it is at the cost of peace in the region. It is high time to revisit the Durand Line. Baloch struggle for independence continued from 1973 to 1977 resulted in 3300 Pakistani soldiers and 5,300 Baluchi freedom fighters killed. The autonomy of the province of Baluchistan was at stake which-though it accounted for only 4% of the total population of Pakistan-represented almost 40% of the national territory and contained most of its mineral wealth. The Pashtuns of NWFP did not however join the struggle. Iran, worried about a possible spill-over of the conflict into his territory, sent clear signals to the Afghan government by dispatching in 1974, at the height of the fighting, some helicopters and Iranian pilots to help the Pakistan Army control the situation, thus the movement and the uprising was sadly crushed. The artificial state of Pakistan is determined to dominate Afghanistan as its vassal. Gen. Zia is on record for having dreamt of Pakistan domination across Central Asia. His legacy very much remains alive today. Pakistan has burned its bridges too much to drop their Taliban puppets and trust Afghanistan rising above her vulnerabilities.

Pakistan will continue to interfere and destabilize areas across the Durand Line, with the objective of retaining control over it as it borders Afghanistan.
The September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Centre in New York was a wake-up call for the West to revisit its policy. Instead, they decided to send their troops to counter militants and allowed roots of the problem to fester.
Since 2001, thousands of U.S. and European troops have lost their lives in Afghanistan and will continue to do so as long as we choose to bury our heads in the sand. While accepting billions of American dollars in military and economic aid, Pakistan has been slowly bleeding the U.S. to death in Afghanistan through its support of the Taliban, Haqqani Network and other terrorist groups.
It is Pakistan’s role to force the U.S. and NATO out of Afghanistan to pave the way for regional dominance of its closest ally, China.
China is, quite literally, colonizing Pakistan.
Through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China aims to connect Asia, the Middle East and Africa through land-based and maritime economic zones as part of China’s global ambition to overtake the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower.
One element of that effort is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), an infrastructure and development project, the backbone of which is a transportation network connecting China to the Pakistani seaports of Gwadar and Karachi located on the Arabian Sea.
Restive Afghanistan has the potential of adversely affecting the security and stability of its neighborhood and the world at large. Maintaining that relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have deteriorated sharply over the years. The incident of May 7 at the Chaman border in Balochistan, when firing by the Pakistan Army resulted in the death of Afghan soldiers.
Afghanistan has always viewed the Durand Line as an artificial border imposed on them by the British colonial rulers of India. The Durand Line was an attempt by British India to secure for itself strategic depth and a buffer against Russian advances into the Indian subcontinent through Afghanistan.
This artificial border drawn by the British in 1893 resulted in the formal cessation of vast tracts of what is now Balochistan and Pashtun-dominated areas belonging to Afghanistan to British India.
During the last days of the British colonial rule, the Pashtuns residing on the British Indian side of the Durand Line, led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’, opposed the creation of Pakistan. Pashtun identity is driven by nationalism rather than religion and hence was not able to come to terms with the idea of a ‘Muslim’ Pakistan. However, when it became clear that the British rulers would not agree to the Pashtun demand for accession to India, they demanded Pakhtunistan instead, a separate homeland for the Pashtuns, a demand supported by Afghanistan. Britain was, however, keen to create a strong Pakistan, and hence, unwilling to undo the historical injustice that the Durand Line represented. Thus, the Pashtun-dominated North Western Frontier Province (NWPF) became a part of Pakistan. The fact of the matter is that Pakistan’s occupation of the Pashtun dominated tribal areas and Baluchistan is illegal, because these areas have never been part of the British India therefore can never be automatically inherited by Pakistan. Sir More Timor Durand himself attests to this in his interview in Asiatic Quarterly Journal in India following the signing of the agreement with Amir of Afghanistan. He said: “The tribes on the Indian side are not to be considered as within British territory. They are simply under our influence in the technical sense of the term, that is to say, so far as the Amir is concerned and as far as they submit to our influence or we exert.”
Afghanistan’s division by foreign secretary Mortimer Durand in 1893 was a mistake, compounded by London’s decision to hand over the British ‘sphere of influence’ to Pakistan in 1947. Pakistan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan asked in the Constituent Assembly in March 1948: ‘Is Pathan the name of a country or that of a community?’ Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan replied: ‘…the people of India used to call us Pathans and we are called Afghans by the Persians. Our real name is Pakhtoon. We want Pakhtoonistan and want to see all the Pathans on this side of the Durand Line joined and united together in Pakhtoonistan.’
Successive Afghan governments have refused to recognize the Durand Line as the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan since the creation of Pakistan in 1947. Pakistan has done everything possible to preserve the status quo, not allowing a strong government in Afghanistan, capable of challenging the validity of the existing border, assisting its proxies set up the government in Kabul and limiting the influence of countries like the U.S, Russia or India, which could pose a challenge to its domination. The Pashtun and Baloch areas have been deliberately neglected within Pakistan, promoting infighting among these ethnic groups, and reducing them to being mere recruiting grounds for militants, thereby enabling Islamabad to maintain its strategic relevance in the region. However, all Afghan governments, including the Pak-supported Taliban regime, have resisted all moves by Pakistan to formalize the Durand Line.
According to former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif, during the Taliban’s rule between 1996 and 2001, Pakistan tried three times to formalize the border but was unsuccessful on each occasion.
The recent decision by Pakistan to start fencing the border, and resultant cross-border firing by Afghan forces, is a continuation of this process.
Pakistan security agencies in an effort to maintain its strategic depth in Afghanistan have used terror groups as proxies to keep the country unstable and weak. Instability along this border has led to a situation where the Pakistani state has lost effective control of its western border, allowing local tribesmen to easily cross back and forth between the two countries.
As long as this demarcation, which was initially drawn to mark areas of influence rather than as an international border, is given sanctity by the international community, Pakistan will continue to play its own ‘great game’ in this area, even if it is at the cost of peace in the region.
The U.S. and other Western countries have perpetuated this historical mistake, or more precisely the historical mischief, committed by British colonial rulers by dividing the Pashtun homeland, in recent years for their strategic interests.
Over the years, the effect of instability prevailing on both sides of the Durand line is no longer limited to the region, has now spilled over also the western world.
Continuous flows of Afghan refugees into Europe and terrorist incidents with links to the Af-Pak region are the consequences.
Baluchistan and portions of the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas of Pakistan that were forcefully taken away and merged into British India need to be restored to their earlier status as the sovereign territory of Afghanistan. Historians who have examined the original documents claim that it was not a treaty and thus irreversible, but an agreement. In fact, Rahman Khan expressed many concerns about it and would not initial the map upon which the line was demarcated. During the 1988 Accords that brought an end to the war with the Soviets, Pakistan attempted to permanently demarcate the Durand Line as part of the Accords. This, of course, was legal legerdemain and exposed the illegality of the original demarcation and Pakistan’s dishonesty at fixing the line as a boundary for all eternity. I have no doubt that with international cooperation this could be overturned.
In short, our aims must be the defeat of terrorism and its allies, the elimination of spawning grounds for terrorism in the region and the emergence of a greater Afghanistan as a free, democratic country with a rapidly growing sustainable economy. In order to achieve this common goal, a brand new outlook and strategy is required for Afghanistan. Securing Gowadar port, Quetta city and the surrounding areas of Waziristan by stopping Pakistan’s involvement with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda and Dayesh and other terrorist groups through stretching full legal territorial integrity of Afghanistan from Amu Darya to the Indus and the Arabian sea, is paramount. The support of the Pashtun and Baloch tribes fighting for their independence from Punjab in the occupied lands will be guaranteed and so will be therefore their freedom and independence. At present, after 16 years of fighting the U.S. and its allies are nowhere near any substantial victory and are teetering on the edge of the abyss of total failure and disaster. A non-ideological political system plus full-fledged territorial integrity ensuring access to the sea for Afghanistan is essential and pre requisite to the total defeats of terrorism its allies and the ultimate accolade for the U.S. and its allies in the region. Trump’s strategy in Afghanistan can be a good prelude, but will only succeed If the political geography is transformed in favor of Afghanistan and Baluchistan as is due long time ago by dismantling the old colonial, disputed line of Durand, undoing the injustice by freeing the Baloch and Pashtuns from Punjani occupation, putting an end to the travesty of the 21st Century through the mobolization of the Pashtuns on either sides of the so called ‘Durand line’ as a counter force to the current menace of Islamic extremism/ terrorism. Unless we destroy safe havens and training centers and terrorist hideouts in Pakistan proper and dislodge them from the areas along the FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and defeat them in the battle fields in Afghanistan and secure the resupply routes for the US forces by ensuring a free access to the sea for a greater Afghanistan, we will always remain under Pakistan duress and at the receiving end of the destructive blows and final end state a loser. We need to act quickly before it is too late. The End

Selected Bibliography:
– A Cultural and Historical history of Afghanistan by Thomos Barfield
– Pakistan-Afghanistan relation and the question of Pashtun by: Fredrec Gareg
– The Durand-land by: Bruce Richardson author of many books on Afghanistan
– THE GREAT GAME SEARS PATHAN HOMELAND BY: Sandhya Jain
– SPEECH BY: European Parliament (EP) Vice President Henry Ryszard Czarnecki
– Information based on British Library documents

The author is a political analyst based in Kabul.

]]>http://dawatmedia.com/articles/afghan-irredentism-and-the-question-of-pashtun-and-baluch-by-faheem-nazimi/feed/0Pakistan and Iran have always cooperated against Baloch national interestshttp://dawatmedia.com/asia/pakistan-and-iran-have-always-cooperated-against-baloch-national-interests/
http://dawatmedia.com/asia/pakistan-and-iran-have-always-cooperated-against-baloch-national-interests/#respondSat, 09 Sep 2017 20:34:21 +0000http://dawatmedia.com/?p=1209Pakistan and Iran have always cooperated against Baloch national interests:

Hyrbyair Marri London:

Baloch leader and the head of Free Balochistan Movement Hyrbyair Marri said in a statement from London that the occupying states of Iran and Pakistan have always closely cooperated against the Baloch national cause in order to counter and eliminate the Baloch freedom struggle. He said that both states were equally involved in occupying Balochistan and committing gross human rights violations against the Baloch people, and in the past, both the states have jointly fought against the Baloch nation. However, due to the current religious, political and economic ambitions in the region the relationship between Iran and Pakistan has become temporarily strained. Because of this tension, both states have adopted dangerous policies against the Baloch national struggle. Both occupying states, through their infamous intelligence agencies, are trying to pit pro-freedom organisations against each other on both sides of occupied Balochistan. In some places, they have succeeded, in others, their evils designs have failed. Mr Marri said, regardless of whether you are struggling against Pakistan or Iran, if you get support from one of those occupying states and use it against your own Baloch brothers, who may be under the occupation of the other state, it is as if you are chopping off a part of your own body. The Baloch nation will suffer as a result of Baloch organisations fighting against each other. The civil war of Iraqi Kurdistan is a clear example, where the KPD and PUK have become proxies of neighbouring nations, Kurds were killed at the hands of their fellow Kurds. In three years’ time, more than eight thousand Kurds were martyrs and many people are still disappeared.

Baloch leader Hyrbyair Marri said in his statement that Balochistan is the land of the Baloch nation, the Baloch nation consists of various schools of thought, including Muslim, non-Muslim, secular, religious, socialist and moderate people, and all these people despite thinking differently and having different ideas can still play a vital role in the Baloch freedom struggle. It will be unwise to reject any Balochs’ struggle because of their different thinking and different ideologies. How is it possible that millions of people would follow one school of thought? He further added that the imperialist forces divided Balochistan into different parts and then divided each part into different areas, and now some narrow-minded Baloch organisations want to divide Balochistan and Baloch nation permanently, on an ideological basis – like how the German and Korean nations were divided only on an ideological basis. If this political attitude prevails then an independent Balochistan will be divided on the ideological and regional basis, where instead of gaining political power through the constitution and vote, religious leaders, socialists, atheists and tribal people will not hesitate to impose their ideologies on each other, to divide the independent Baloch state and nation furthermore. Hyrbyair Marri said, “The Baloch nation has never accepted the Goldsmith line drawn by colonial powers, and they will never accept it.” The Baloch political activists from both sides of occupied Balochistan can take refuge and live in any part of Balochistan. “If Baloch from Iranian occupied Balochistan takes refuge in Pakistan occupied Balochistan and vice versa, it does not matter, because Balochistan is one, and it is our shared country.” In fact, strategically planned appeal for asylum is not a danger to the Baloch national interest but accepting the artificial line (boundaries) and becoming mercenary soldiers of other states, and being used against the Baloch nation, endangers the entire Baloch national cause. In these circumstances, if activists from both sides of occupied Balochistan become proxies of their eternal enemies and work against each other, it will immensely damage the Baloch national interests. First, these two states will use Baloch against each other, and then after a minor improvement in their relationship, they will become allies and use the Baloch as a bargaining chip to please each other. Mr Marri said that freedom of any part of Balochistan will be the beginning of the independence of a United Balochistan, and that is why Baloch activists from both sides of occupied Balochistan should use their power and energy against the occupying states [Iran and Pakistan].

]]>http://dawatmedia.com/asia/pakistan-and-iran-have-always-cooperated-against-baloch-national-interests/feed/0Hyrbyair Marri greets Afghan people on their Independence Dayhttp://dawatmedia.com/afghanistan/hyrbyair-marri-greets-afghan-people-on-their-independence-day/
http://dawatmedia.com/afghanistan/hyrbyair-marri-greets-afghan-people-on-their-independence-day/#respondSun, 20 Aug 2017 08:39:27 +0000http://dawatmedia.com/?p=1133My greetings to people of Afghanistan and Afghan diaspora I would like to congratulate you and wish you a very happy Independence Day. The day is not far when we, the Baloch, will also celebrate the Independence Day of Balochistan without the fear of being tortured, picked up and disappeared even murdered for celebrating our national days. You are lucky that you have an independent country but a part of Afghanistan on the other side of Durand Line is still under occupation of Punjabistan and unfortunately majority of Pashtuns on the other side of Durand Line has accepted this ugly reality that they are Pakistani. The Baloch and Afghans, especially, the Pashtun nationalists under Pakistan’s occupation should understand the real consequences of Durand Line and the main cause of destabilisation in Afghanistan and unite to struggle against the unnatural state of Pakistan. The artificial line was drawn against the will of Afghans and the Baloch that’s why we have never accepted it as an international boundary.

In July 1949, the Afghan ruler Zahir Shah held a Loya Jirga ‘Grand Assembly’ of Afghan People which unanimously declared that it recognised “neither the imaginary Durand Line nor any similar lines” and that all previous agreements along with the Durand Line were null and void. All these artificial Lines drawn in our land were imposed upon our nation. So, they have got no legal importance. The Afghans and the Baloch should revive their hundreds of years old treaties and like ASEAN countries and the European Union; we should expand our treaties of unity to other nations. So, that Afghanistan and Balochistan can become an example of peace, prosperity, and stability in the region. We should have treaties like those between Khan Noori Naseer Khan and Ahmad Shah baba. About two centuries back our leaders had respect for each other’s nation and we should respect their vision and continue their tradition of mutual respect. It can help us to resolve our minor internal problems peacefully. We are two brotherly nations and we should not allow the Pakistani Punjabis to make us fight each other. Our focus should be freedom from the yoke of Punjabi and end their interference in our countries.

The Pashtuns living under the occupation Pakistan should establish brotherly relations with Baloch nations and unify their collective power against the occupying state of Pakistan rather calling themselves Pakistani. When you have such a proud and rich history of your own why take an artificial identity impose on you by Punjabi. If they join their motherland Afghanistan that will make them no less Muslims than Pakistani Punjabis. Why, if someone accepts and takes this artificial name calling himself Pakistani would they be more Muslims than an Afghan? Today Pakistan is wiping out the cream of our societies, our most educated and learned youth are being killed under different pretexts and vicious tactics. Our universities, schools and courts and hospitals are being attacked deliberately to deprive us of our educated youth. Whether it is the brutal murder of Mashal Khan, the attack on Kabul University or Civil Hospital Quetta where hundreds of Baloch and Pasthun lawyers were killed. It is a repetition of the history of the genocide of Bangladeshis. Pakistan used its religious proxies against people Bangladesh during their war of liberation, and still are employing the same tactics of sending hired and extremists in Afghanistan and Balochistan to eliminate the intellectual and educated people of both nations. Even today as we speak, Pakistani forces are busy conducting military attacks against Baloch people across Balochistan.

They are using heavy weaponry and gunship helicopters to bomb villages where hundreds of innocent people are being killed. In their changing terror tactics, the Pakistani forces have now started abducting Baloch women and children as bargaining chips. Just a few days back many Pashtuns have also been abducted from Harnai and Degari regions of Balochistan alongside Baloch men, women and children, only because they are neighbours of Baloch. The only solution to rid ourselves of Pakistani Punjabi hegemony is that Afghans and the Baloch on both sides of ‘the curse’ which called Durand line should unite and stand shoulder to shoulder with each other to thwart the conspiracies and evil designs of Pakistan and its criminal proxies.

Long live Afghan Baloch Unity Thank you Hyrbyair Marri Faiz M Baluch, a member of Free Balochistan Movement, read this message on behalf of Hyrbyair Marri on Afghanistan’s Independence Day in London.

Baloch nation conveys their cheering wishes and congratulates from bottom of their hearts to Indian people on #ndependenceDayIndia. The Baloch people consider the people of India as their true friends. We share common goals and have deep rooted relationship based on thousands of years of history.

In the month of August, we both friendly nations have declared our independence from British colonial regime in 1947 after sacrificing uncountable lives in the line of freedom.

The struggle of great worrier and revolutionary leader comrade martyr Bhagat Singh and his comrades have been inspiring icons for Baloch youth and freedom loving people around the world. Bhagat Singh who was not only a symbol of resistance but equally was a great diplomat and highly experienced and motivational speaker.

When the Britishers were deaf and blind to hear the voice of Indian people Bhagat Sing and his revolutionary team decided to explode crackers in the British assembly to make them realize that the British Raaj must quit India. The motive behind the British parliament was to raise awareness about the liberation movement of India.

On the occasion of India’s 71th Independence day, I am glad to share that Balochistan liberation struggle also has a Bhagat Singh which is known as #HyrbyairMarri who didn’t explode any cracker in Britain’s courts but convinced the British government by courageously educating the court about the ongoing Balochistan’s seven decades old freedom struggle.

Mr. Marri was arrested on false cases by the British authorities with his comrade Faiz M Baluch from Iranian occupied Balochistan, in December 2007. The British government was fed with wrong information by former Pakistan army Chief General Musharraf’s government which caused the arrest of Baloch leaders. Both the Baloch leaders faced the baseless charges and successfully defended the Balochistan case. The tireless legal battle of Baloch nation made the British Jury eventually accept that Baloch are fighting for their fundamental rights and independence state which declared its independence from British on 11 August 1947 during the British withdrawal from the subcontinent.

Mr.Marri and his legal team conducted a massive signature campaign in occupied Balochistan where half a million people in occupied Balochistan took part by signing the petition. Baloch youth and people from all spheres of lives had urged the British authority to release the Baloch national leader immidiately. He and his friend Faiz Baluch were found not guilty and acquitted of all charges by British Jury.
Hyrbyair Marri after his released issued a statement and thanked the British public the jury who realized the burning issues of Balochistan and thoroughly studied the historical background of legitimate struggle of Baloch national struggle.

The Baloch leaders defended the Baloch cause with determination with the support of Baloch nation from occupied Balochistan. The entire court procedure is remembered as a symbolic victory for Baloch national cause and bold stance of Baloch leaders reminds us the struggle of Bhagat Singh who made the Britishers realized that they (Indian Nation) deserve the Independence.

The Baloch leaders also proved on international forums Pakistan is suppressing the Baloch at barrel of the gun and if Baloch cause once again is overlooked then Pakistani terrorism will soon engulf the entire region.

The Bhagat Singh of Balochistan Mr.Marri explained the Balochistan issue in detail in Britain’s court room. He won the legal battle against Pakistan in British court which is considered a moral victory for Balochistan Liberation struggle in global front.

Balochistan declared it’s Independence on 11 August and India proclaimed its Independence on 15 August. It is a misfortune that both Balochistan and Indian leadership could not join hands to work for the betterment of the subcontinent and our people.

When Pakistan forcefully invaded Baloch sovereign state on 27 March 1948, unfortunately India, Afghanistan and rest of the neighboring countries were not in a position to intervene and stop Pakistani terrorism and violation of Balochistan’s territorial integrity.

During the Bangladesh Independence movement, the leadership of Balochistan, India and Afghanistan couldn’t introduce a combined and long lasting policy in the subcontinent to counter Pakistani extremism and state terrorism. We are optimistic that after 71 years of experience of coping with Pakistani state terrorism both the real neighbors of Balochistan the Government of India and Afghanistan will take solid steps by allowing Baloch to open their offices in their countries and will offer considerable unconditional support freedom movement of Balochistan.

People of occupied Balochistan hopeful that this time India will not repeat the past mistake of ignoring the Balochistan Liberation movement and now will contact Baloch leaders #HyrbyairMarri #BrahumdaghBugti and #DrAllahNazar and provide them diplomatic, political, military, moral and all sort of required support to make Balochistan liberation happened.

Baloch nation have been struggling for 70 years to regain their independence without any foreign support. It is said that you can’t win a war empty handed and you can’t sustain empty stomach but Baloch nation have been fighting against a nuclear rogue state of Pakistan with empty handed and with very little resources. Baloch liberation struggle deserves the full and direct support from its neighboring countries specially #Bangldesh,#Afghanistan and #India because Balochistan shares a common goal with these respective countries. For the eradication of global and regional terrorism international community have to support the Baloch national struggle for a free sovereign and democratic Baloch state.

]]>http://dawatmedia.com/articles/hyrbyair-the-bhagat-singh-of-balochistan-by-sobdar-baluch/feed/0Hyrbyair Marri Message on world RefugeeDayhttp://dawatmedia.com/asylum-seekers-and-refugees/hyrbyair-marri-message-on-worldrefugeeday/
http://dawatmedia.com/asylum-seekers-and-refugees/hyrbyair-marri-message-on-worldrefugeeday/#respondSat, 22 Jul 2017 22:36:10 +0000http://dawatmedia.com/?p=1057Mr Marri’s message is as following: I thank the organisers of this event for inviting our friend Aziz Baloch to speak here today. “The Baloch nation has never enjoyed any peace, stability and prosperity since the British imperial army invaded Balochistan in 1839. The British drew the Goldsmith Line in 1871, and Durand Line in 1893, and divided Balochistan into three parts, in order to weaken the Baloch and Afghan nation. Despite these divisions the Baloch struggle to regain their independence continued. The Baloch in Western part of Balochistan pushed the Persian out of their homeland by 1910 but Persian rulers reoccupied it in 1928. Similarly, after the British withdrawal from the sub-continent, the Easter part of Balochistan became independent in August 1947 but it was invaded by the Muslim Punjabi army of the newly created state of Pakistan 1948. Whitehall’s creation was aimed at dividing the sub-continent and weakening India. Since, then the foreign occupying powers have been treating Balochistan as their colony, and the international community including the United Nations remained and continues to remain silent against the Baloch genocide by Pakistan and Iran. Pakistan has made Balochistan a slaughter house for the people of Balochistan. Regular military attacks, enforced-disappearances and abduction of Baloch women and children have become daily routine of the Pakistani army across Balochistan. Lately, Pakistan forces have started to abduct and terrorise the women and children of those Baloch activists who are involved in peaceful and political struggle for freedom of Balochistan. Ladies and gentlemen: The latest and ongoing military offensives started in the year 2000, and continue to this day in its full force in Balochistan. Pakistan also tested Islamic nuclear bombs in the Koh Kambaran range and Chaghai hills in Balochistan on 28 May 1998. Pakistan army, its proxies and the criminal death squads have arrested, disappeared, imprisoned, tortured, killed and displaced thousands upon thousands of Baloch political and human rights activists over several decades. Many of the displaced Baloch refugees have sought protection in Western democracies including in the USA. However, the Baloch asylum seekers live an uncertain life in their host countries because the authorities, of the countries where the Baloch seek protection, treat them as Pakistanis.

We appeal the world powers that Baloch refugees should not be called Pakistanis because they are victims of Pakistani state terrorism. Baloch refugees should be given political asylum and protection under the UN and international conventions. Deporting Baloch refugees back to Balochistan will be tantamount to pushing them into the jaws of death. Pakistan is not only committing war crimes in Balochistan but it is also involved in regional terrorism and international blackmailing in the name ‘fight against terrorism’. Thankfully, the world is now slowly realising the double crossing of international community by the Janus-faced state that is Pakistan – because of its involvement, support and sponsoring of religious terrorism. It’s now an undeniable fact that Pakistan has cunningly played a blinder with the West for the last 70 years or so, as it’s involved directly or indirectly in almost all terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Balochistan, India and in many Western capitals. Majority of the attackers were either Pakistan born, or they visited Pakistan at some point before becoming religious monsters and murderous Jihadists. We the Baloch people have been telling the world for ages that Pakistan is a cheat and it is deceiving the world but nobody heeded to us. We are glad that today the entire world is coming to the conclusion that Pakistan is a terrorist sponsoring state. The international realisation of Pakistan’s duplicity is a confirmation of our concerns. We hope that the developing sentiment in the US Senate and Congress to stop funding Pakistan and declare Pakistan a ‘terrorist sponsoring state’ will continue to grow and they will succeed in convincing President Trump’s government to stop supporting Pakistan.

One of the basic principle of President Donald Trump is to stop “making bad deals,” as he would put it. Whatever the United States has with Pakistan is a bad deal. I do not believe anyone thinks Pakistan is an ally of the United States, and a good deal for the United States would be to support the Baloch nation to regain their independence. It is also the best way to bring US troops home from Afghanistan with a victory that maintains US influence in the region. Ladies and Gentlemen: We strongly believe that an independent Balochistan is the key to peace in Afghanistan and in the region because an independent Balochistan will not allow Pakistan’s Punjabi army to send their hired proxies and national assets the Taliban, Haqqani Network and other religious extremist groups to Afghanistan via Balochistan.

Neither will Baloch nation allow their soil to be used against their neighbouring brotherly nations. The secular and tolerant nature and tradition of Baloch nation are compatible with international value and democracy that is why also the international powers must support the Baloch as their natural allies in the war against terrorism and to defeat the spread of growing religious fundamentalism across the globe. Apart from promoting religious fundamentalism, Pakistan has lured China into becoming its crime Partner in Balochistan. The China-Pakistan nexus and the so-called China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has become a cause of death and destruction for Baloch nation, especially, for the Baloch people living in Gwadar and Kech districts where Pakistan army carries out regular attacks against innocent civilians in the name of development. We have urged China time and again to stop supporting Pakistan’s evil designs in Balochistan and do not become party between the Baloch and Pakistan conflict. China, however, has chosen to side with the oppressor and occupier against the oppressed and occupied Baloch nation. China’s long term plan, however, is to build a naval base in Gwadar Balochistan and to have control over the strategic strait of Hurmoz to counter US and Indian influence in the region. We request the International media and all freeborn people to stop calling Balochistan a ‘province of Pakistan’, because this is the equivalent to a severe insult for the Baloch people, as we have never willingly joined Pakistan and neither are we happily living under Pakistani occupation. When the media of neighbouring countries does refer to the Baloch as the ‘people of Pakistan’ it comes across like they are unaware and uneducated in terms of the history of the area. I especially urge the Indian media to refer to Pakistan as the RENEGADE TERRITORY of India, as the land now called Pakistan was not brought by the Mughals, instead that once was part of Bharat that was divided by the British. The only major difference is that the now Pakistanis converted to Islam then out of greed, as a direct response to the Jazia tax. As non-Muslims were forced to pay that tax. We Baloch have rejected Pakistani occupation from day one, and since 1948 the Baloch resistance against occupation and desire for freedom has never died. The resistance and war of liberation that we are witnessing in Balochistan today is the continuation of the freedom struggle that our ancestors started years ago. The Baloch liberation struggle will continue until the Baloch become in control of their destiny once again, and regain their sovereignty. Today through this esteemed gathering, we appeal to the democratic nations, international media, international human rights organisations and the regional powers including Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh and other neighbouring states to support our just cause. Indeed, we need your support to regain our independence. An independent Balochistan is not just in the interest of the Baloch, or the region, but it is in the interest of the entire democratic world, as it can bring about regional stability and widespread tranquillity.”

Thank you Hyrbyair Marri July 16, 2017

]]>http://dawatmedia.com/asylum-seekers-and-refugees/hyrbyair-marri-message-on-worldrefugeeday/feed/0Tarek Fateh must educate Panjabis instead of Baloch and Indians-By: Sobdar Balochhttp://dawatmedia.com/articles/tarek-fateh-must-educate-panjabis-instead-of-baloch-and-indians-by-sobdar-baloch/
http://dawatmedia.com/articles/tarek-fateh-must-educate-panjabis-instead-of-baloch-and-indians-by-sobdar-baloch/#respondSat, 17 Jun 2017 16:23:13 +0000http://dawatmedia.com/?p=949This is unbelievable that today the majority of Panjabis living in Panjab province and abroad are unaware about Pakistan army’s terrorism on #BalochSoil. In fact they are deliberately facilitating their army and ISI to strengthen #BalochGenocide so they rule Balochistan further in the future.

What is the responsibility of Panjabi intellectual?

A Panjabi from Panjab province must think why his people in Panjab are ignoring Baloch genocide, why the majority of Panjabis cheers when a Baloch activist is killed or abducted by the ISI?

The London group of 1970’s comprised of Najam Sethi, Rashed Rehman, Asad Rehman and few others must have started awareness campaign in Panjab province because the only people must be educated are actually the panjabis themselves. They instead of coming to Balochistan must have worked in Panjab or in Europe, United Kingdom or elsewhere to raise Balochistan issue, because Panjab being the majority in numbers are collectively usurping Baloch rights and suppressing Baloch voice on the assembly forums. Assembly members, army generals, bureaucrats, media and mullah all are at same page when it comes to suppress and crush the Baloch freedom movement.

Baloch leaders took part in Pakistani elections in the past but were not given the chance to do anything for the betterment of their people.

Tarek and other characters must land in Panjab province to ask their politicians and army generals why they dismissed the legitimate governments of Baloch leaders in the past?

Our international friends of Balochistan must think on this aspect that why Panjabi intellectuals make their entry in Balochistan and directly make bonds with Baloch individuals, try to win their trust by using harsh language against pakistan army, ISI and favoring the Baloch freedom movement,. We should seriously think that why they enter in the camps of pro-freedom parties? Are not they deliberately being sent by the ISI to extract information from Baochistan movement to counter it?

Today when entire Panjab province is silent on #BalochGenocide Tarek Fateh and other opportunists must have gone to Panjab province and must have started a massive campaigning to tell the people of Panjab that they must not remain silent on Baloch suffering, Panjabis must educate their own inhabitants that their army is doing wrong in #OccupiedBalochistan. Panjabi intellectuals, columnists and writers like Tarek Fateh must land in Panjab and tell their army must withdraw from Balochistan.

Baloch pro-freedom parties doesn’t need any guideline from Panjabi intellectuals. If these Panjabis really wants to support Baloch cause they must educate their youth, they must go to the universities, collages, and educational institutions in Panjab, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Islamabad to conduct conferences, workshops and public awareness campaigns, must show their solidarity with Baloch people and praise Baloch freedom movement from Panjab province.

Today if we watch Pakistani TV channels all paid pakistani anchor persons and intellectuals openly encouraging Pakistan army to kill all Baloch women, children and people who speaks for the independence of Balochistan.

At this scenario Tarek Fateh and other must contact its own people and make them understand to part from Pakistan army’s heinous crimes against humanity in #OccupiedBalochistan.

Someone must not be surprised that instead of educating Panjabi elite, public, Tarek Fateh is pushing himself towards the camp of pro-freedom parties individuals. We need support from international community but Panjabis always stabbed us from back. If they are really sincere to help Baloch then firstly they must educate their own people not be part in crimes in Balochistan and Pakistan China’s exploitation projects.

BBC URDU conducted a short questionnaire by asking simply the name of cities of Balochistan from top university students of Panjab province. Interestingly none of higher level graduate students know anything about Balochistan, their lecturers were also nil about Balochistan. Tarek Fateh must be worried about the poor quality of information of Panjab youth and educated elite. Baloch nation knows their enemy (Pakistan army) and their destination (Freedom of Balochistan) for which they have been struggling since day one. Panjabis themselves need to be educated because charity begins from home.

A family members or people from one community have the responsibility to educate their own circles. Baloch have to educate their own people, Pashtuns have the duty to create awareness among their own people regarding their issues, Sindhis have to spread awareness among Sindhis and Panjabis must work to educate Panjabis that Balochistan is at war and they must not be part of Pakistan army’s terrorism.

One of my friend asked a question that are Indians and Baloch people that much unable to represent their people’s aspirations and cause on international forums that a panjabi Tarek Fateh is trying to represent them on Media and other forums? Who has given him the authority to distribute certificates of patriotism and traitors?

I replied which i am sure would be answer of every Baloch that he has no right to represent Baloch cause, he is a Panjabi origin and must limit himself as a supporter not a policy maker or representative of Balochistan liberation struggle.Few years ago none knows about Tareh Fateh but now he is introducing himself as an anti-Pakistan to get citizenship of India. His prime objective is to create hatred in India on religious bases, he is given the task to divide Baloch and Indian society. To influence his audience and public he is trying to make himself a celebrity by hosting TV shows in India.

We request our Indian, Pashtun and Sindhi friends that they must join hands and should not let Panjabi outsiders. If Tarek Fateh is really serious supporting Baloch he must organize a rally in Islamabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi in favor of #FreeBalochistan#FreePashtunistan#FreeSindhudesh by chanting the slogans of #PakistanArmyQuitBalochistan. #ISIStopTerrroismInBalochistan etc. And if Tarek Fateh can’t stage a rally in Panjab then he has no right to create misunderstanding in Baloch freedom camps and must keep himself away creating disharmony in Indian society by hosting TV shows like “Fateh Ka Fatwa”.